Author: cparker
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Austin Briggs, The Consumate Illustrator
I initially encountered the work of Austin Briggs (see my previous post) in his role as a comics artist — working as an assistant to the great Alex Raymond, and eventually ghosting Raymond’s Flash Gordon newspaper strip, and taking over in a credited role on Secret Agent X-9. Briggs’ work in comics was a sideline,…
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John Singer Sargent: Portraits in Charcoal at the Morgan Library
John Singer Sargent is known for his bravura society portraits in oil, as well as his masterful watercolors. The latter were painted largely for his own pleasure as he traveled. The former, which were his stock in trade, came to weary him late in his career, and at one point he simply stopped doing formal…
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Eye Candy for Today: John Martin’s The Great Day of His Wrath
The Great Day of His Wrath, John Martin Oil on canvas, roughly 77 x 120 inches (197 x 303 cm); link is to zoomable image on the Google Art Project; downloadable version on Wikimedia Commons, original is in the Tate. This large painting by the 19th century painter John Martin — who was known for…
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Louis Béroud
Louis Béroud was a French painter active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was known for his views of Paris — often of strikingly complex architectural subjects — and views of ornate interiors, in particular interior views of the Louvre museum. Béroud was registered as a copyist at the Louvre and did…
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Eye Candy for Today: The Camp Meeting, Worthington Whittredge
The Camp Meeting, Worthington Whittredge, oil on canvas, roughly 16 x 40inches (40 x 103 cm); in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which has both a zoomable and downloadable version of the image. What I love most about this immersive, panoramic painting by Hudson River School artist Worthington Whittredge is his use…